Our Icah Peart KC of the Garden Court Crime Team acted for the defendant, leading Jessie Smith of Doughty Street Chambers.
Counsel instructed by Tricia O'Sullivan of Sperrin Law.
Icah Peart KC, leading Jessie Smith, secured a unanimous acquittal following a two-week trial at Maidstone Crown Court. The jury returned their verdict in a short 35 minutes.
The defendant, DD, was charged with perverting the course of justice following the murder of SP in Kent. DD was alleged to have assisted her boyfriend - the primary murder suspect - to evade arrest. DD was a survivor of domestic violence. She had been shot by her boyfriend in the lead up to the murder, and endured months of verbal and psychological abuse.
The above content has been reproduced from a Doughty Street Chambers release.
